Apr 20, 2009

H!B Hello!Baka ~ new GroupDub formation
Posted by Liamers At 9:38 PM 0 comments
well as if the pic didn't speak for itself, I will explain a little.

I started H!B after doing some fan dubbing myself and then a group of us over at musume-central did some group dubs. I found it pretty fun and thought that I would like to do it more often. So I set up a forum and roped my friends from musume-central, Aibonono, cheekychill [of JKC Revolution], EtherealMotives and our very own Dran [of Berryz Kyuuden]. Togther with myself are the 1st generation. We are going to debut with Ai no tane and will hopefully continue to grow and dub till the cows come home. If you are interested in joining a dub group, be you a guy or girl, then why not join us and get in at the ground floor, well 1st floor seeing as you will be the 2nd gen.

To join either go to the forum at http://hellobaka.proboards.com/index.cgi and post your audition or else go to the recruitment vid on youtube and post a video response of you singing a full H!P song, or you can pm me the link to a downloadable mp3.



good luck to all who auditon.
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Apr 16, 2009

Post of all posts
Posted by Liamers At 4:12 PM 2 comments
hey, sorry to all the lovely people who read Mayuge Madness, I havent posted in ages, I was on a fieldtrip away studying rocks, then I went to Rome on a holiday. So this is a medley post of sorts, I am gonna post about a lot of the stuff I missed out on if any of ye are still interested. I wont be posting about everything, just some of the main stuff that interests me the most.

ok so I am gonna start off with the newest, er um news?

Morning Musume's new single has a preview out now!!

The song is called "Shouganai Yumeoibito" which roughly translates to something like "Never stop chasing dreams" or something like that. Now when the title was releasedI like so many other guessed as to what the song would sound like and with the title we had a pic of the cover of the cd.



My 1st impression was similiar to a lot of other people, which was "OMFG THE GIRLS LOOK AMAZING!!!" So from the way the girls were dressed and the title of the single, I had a strong feeling that the song was oing to be a ballad, we havent heard one of them since Aruiteru. I thought it would be the sort of ballad we might have heard from Morning Musume Tanjou 10nen Kinentai, and its not too far off it. Its not a slow ballad, its got some elctric guitar, nice beats and a nice overall upbeat ballad sound. The girls sound awesome, needless to say Gaki's line made me melt when I 1st heard it and I genuinly think its one of the best lines on the preview, but I love the overall song so I'm happy. I eagerly await the full version and PV. I pray though that the H!P that has formed will put some more imagination into the PV.

Next:

Buono's new single is coming out soon and we have been given a 30 sec pv preview.

The song called "Moy Boy" is the ending song for the Shugo Chara anime and it is foooking awesome.



Its the grungiest I have ever heard them, but its such an awesomly cool song. The pv is awesome, the girls have some hawt moves while wearing neon clothes. The story of the pv is about the 3 girls trying to use stealthy spy moves to try and get through this mansion building to get to a guarded cheesecake in the shape of the heart. Its a funny pv and its quite good with some funny momo bits, its so good it gives me hope for MM's new single *crosses fingers*

here is some pic spam of the girls from the sing.



A few days ago, C-utes 8th major sing "Bye Bye Bye" was released. I am still a bit iffyabout the song, I dunno C-utes newer songs are kind of lacking in that grab factor. The song is ok but the one thing that blew me away was in the pv Chisato looks so different, so much more grown up and finally she looks girly, for so long they had her hair short, tied up/back, gelled and it wasn't very flattering. But now she looks great, she actually outshines Airi in this pv, and I LOVE Airi!. Not much to say about this really, an ok song, Chisato steals the show and sounds amazing, but there is one part of the pv I love, and that the finger point dance part, I laugh every time I see it. Anyway if you haven't seen or heard it yet, judge for yourself.



another new release:

Berryz Koubou are releasing their 20th single soon and is the ending for another anime.



To me the starting and ending of the preview sound a lot like C-utes Bye Bye Bye. I'm not feeling this song to be honest, it is an anime song rather than a song you would go out and buy. A lot of Risako in this too and I amn't the biggest fan of her voice. Its a shame because I love Dakishimete Dakishimete so much, this lets me down.

ok so onto a little something different. H!P have a new unit, its called Guardian 4 and they will be releasing their 1st aingle "Omakase! Guardian!" on 27th of May. This is the opening song to the same anime Buono are doing the ending for. The group, made up of Kumai Yurina (love her!), Mitsui Aika, Sugaya Risako and Nakajima Saki.



The group will probaby be a mitsui and Riasko show. Risako because she is one of the most popular of the H!P kids and mitsui because she is in MM. The song is nice and energetic and its a nice change from some of the heavier stuff. The outfits are really cute too.



I really like the part from 0:47 - the ending, it makes me wanna dance around like an idiot with my arms flailing about.

Anyway thats my lot for today, again, sorry about the long wait, hopefully that wont happen again, but just as a note, my Uni exams start in may
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Mar 11, 2009

Platinum 9 DISC, news, previews & reviews
Posted by Liamers At 5:26 PM 0 comments
I decided that I would leave this until we accumilated news and previews of the songs as well as pics so here goes.



1 雨の降らない星では愛せないだろう? (Ame no Furanai Hoshi Dewa Aisenai Darou)
2 ＳＯＮＧＳ
3 リゾナント　ブルー (Resonant Blue)
4 Ｔａｋｅ　ｏｆｆ　ｉｓ　ｎｏｗ！
5 みかん (Mikan)
6 私の魅力に気付かない鈍感な人 (Watashi no Miryoku ni Kiduka nu Donkan na Hito)
7 グルグルＪＵＭＰ (guru guru jump)
8 情熱のキスを一つ (Jounetsu no Kiss o Hitotsu)
9 Ｉｔ’ｓ　Ｙｏｕ
10 女に　幸あれ (Onna ni Sachi Are)
11 片思いの終りに (Kataomoi no Owari ni)
12 悲しみトワイライト (Kanashimi Twilight)
13 泣いちゃうかも (Naichau Kamo)

Release date: 18th March 2009

~Ame no Furanai Hoshi Dewa Aisenai Darou~



The album version is a bit different from the concert and leaked version in that it is slower, has a better intro, neither Ai or Reina have their solo's in the start like they used to. I suppose they will leave in the chinese bits in the end. Good solid performance song, would have been weird for MM not to have a group ballad song.

~SONGS~



I LOVE SONGS!! ya that kinda sounds weird. but seriously though, this song is awesome, one of my favourites on the album. Its got some piano, strings, drums then we get some RnB a bit of dance/disco. Reina and Ai get the solo lines at the start, but they dont completely dominate the song. We get great groupings of girls that sound great. "Sa a sing a song" sang by Ai in her remixed voice is one of my fave bits. We get a solo of a girl near the start but I can't place who it is, JunJun or Eri. Probably JunJun as LinLin and Gaki both get solo's later on, well linlin does and I'm pretty sure Gaki does too, either that or she does the main vocals with someone else harmonising. I have been playing this over and over for days, I love it!

~Ｔａｋｅ　ｏｆｆ　ｉｓ　ｎｏｗ！~



Oh good lord *Faints*. Can it really get much better. This song too is awesome and I have had it played numerous times since its release. Loving the sound Tsunku has come up with for songs and Take off is now is really cool. Even line distribution (fans still havent gotten over the resonant blue fiasco) and they each sound awesome. Tsunku must really like this trio as he has them doing 2 songs together on the album, perhaps he is thinking of a new sub -unit :P. This is another one of my favourite songs of the Album.

~Watashi no Miryoku ni Kiduka nu Donkan na Hito~
a.k.a the Aika solo



Now this girl ranks the lowest on my fave members list of MM but I will listen to the song subjectivley without prejiduce. The instrumental is very good at the beginning and in the middle and end but when she is singing it's kind the same tune going thoughout the whole song. An ok song, listenable.


~Guru Guru Jump~



oh dear the 3 most hyper members of MM put into a song and performance "Quick hide the sugar!" XD no seriously this is such a cute song and omg Koharu doesn't sound aweful, unless she's lip synching. The album needed a cute song (Mikan is cute too but not a new cute song) and this does the trick. From that performance linlin made me laugh, she just looks so goofy.

~Jounetsu no Kiss o Hitotsu~



The 2nd of the 2 TakaGakiReina songs. From the bat we get a Gaki solo....insta-win. Another cool sounding song, different to Take off is now, and thats good, both are awesome. This song is cool but is more subtle that the other song. While writing this I still can't believe how many lines Gaki is getting, its friggen awesome...oh ah the chorus is so cool. Love it. This album is rocking my socks off.

~Ｉｔ’ｓ　Ｙｏｕ~
a.k.a The Sayu solo song



I laugh so hard every time I listen to the start of this song "eh, yea yea, eh, its yo ,its you come on" She sound like a crap rapper with a little bit of sluttyness added in XD. Here we get another song with that cool beat instrumental. When I 1st heard Sayu was going to have a solo song I was kind of annoyed since she isn't that great of a singer, but everytime I listen to it I like it more and more. I wont like it as much as the likes of songs but it actually aint bad and last she doesn't do that high pitched note at the end of every line like she usually does, if she did I would HATE the song. Props to her though.

~Kataomoi no Owari ni~
a.k.a the Eri solo



Aww Eri sounds so sweet in this song, its refreshing after sayu's (no offense). Eri's voice s so smooth and sweet you just want to reach through the computer and give her a big hug. I quite like it, hopefully she will lose her insane vibrato that she sometimes does and keepts is clean cut.

~OVERALL~

What an awesome album. Really I dont think there is a song that I really dislike, sure I love some over others but thats natural. Interesting though that kanashimi twilight is on it. Will it be with Yossie and miki or will junlin take their places, we will just have to wait to find out. Ya so go buy it MM fans it will be well worth it ;)






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Mar 4, 2009

Musume Love ~ My rankings
Posted by Liamers At 1:26 AM 4 comments
so this post is kind of to break my lack of posts recently and also to spam about the girls, so here goes my rankings of the 9 girls.

#1: Niigaki Risa

So ye probably new this was coming no suprises there. I just love this girl, she is everything you would want in an idol, a great singer, awesome personality, funny, good looking, good dancer and an all round entertainer. She caught my attention when on music fighter promoting osaka koi no uta which was also ishikawa's grad special and her talk on the buildings had the exact same effect on me as it did on miki, yup I laughed till tears streamed down my face. So since then she has been my favourite member no member coming close to how much I love her :)

#2: Kamei Eri

So the reason why I like Eri is a lot like the reasons I like why I like Risa. Eri is a good singer (except for when she does her quavering sheep impressions) and insanely funny, when her and Risa get together one or both of the girls cracks up usually ending with me laughing too. She is weird and I absolutly love that about her, she isn't afraid to act goofy.

#3: Takahashi Ai & Michishige Sayum



Ya this was a hard one to call ad in the end I decided to have a joint 3rd place. On one hand we have Ai, an amazing!! singer, passionate, endeering person. And on the other we have Sayu, a weak singer but has a great personality, quite funny but can get carried away sometimes with the whole cute thing. They kind of balance each other out, Ai the singer & Sayu ther ersonality, ying and yang / hot and cute...same thing

#5: Tanaka Reina & JunJun


Ya another tie. To tell ye the truth I wasn't expecting this either but here we are. Well I suppose they are kind of similiar except for the popularity and line distribution. But to me they both have their moments where they make me laugh. I hated Reina for ages and I didn't really know why. I think it was because she got loads of lines and was always promoted over many others and was the centre for a long time. I dont particularly love her but she does have her moments as I said. JunJun to me is more loveable, she is emotional weirdly funny and not bad a singer. She was deadly funny in the making of for pepper keibu but she doesn't really do much to give much impact. I see the potential in her and I like her but she needs to command the attention more.

#7: LinLin



LinLin is in the same boat as JunJun same qualities. But LinLin sometimes goes a bit overboard in trying to be funny and sometimes it annoyes me. No point in me repeating or copy and pasting what I said about JunJun into here too.

#8: Kusumi Koharu

Absolutly terrible singer, screechy almost tone deaf girl. But she did the same as Sayu, she got a personality and that is one of a spazzy, hyper girl. It is this fact alone that keeps her from the bottom of my rankings, she actually makes me smile and laugh sometimes.

#9: Mitsui Aika

This result for me was as predictable as Risa being #1. I just dont like aika. She started off in MM being just an ok singer and from ther she got steadily worse. In concerts she sounds even worse (I know I couldn't dance for 5 minutes and then sing a song perfectly afterwards either.) I dunno just nothing about her appeals to me, plus you'd swear she was glued to ai-chan the way she was around her in alo hello 3. She gets in the way of all the takagaki moments, if she did that to eri too I would go insane. Plus sometimes to me her smiles seem really fake.


So there it is my favourite to least favourite girl in the current line-up. It will be interesting to see how my opinions have changed in a years time, hoping that some havent graduated

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Feb 13, 2009

Dakishimete Dakishimete....so awesome, they named it twice
Posted by Liamers At 11:54 PM 2 comments
Yup berryz have a new single coming out soon and I am here to tell you why its awesome!! Oh before I start, the pv part of this review is mainly eyecandy, plus the girls move so fast and the camera changes so much its hard to cap.

so pv part:

there are 3 main parts to this pv, sexy close ups, great dancing and random bits.

sexy close up bits...... main part of the pv review, mainly because I think the girls look awesome.

Risako, main singer...but she is in my opinion the least good looking in this pv. just doesn't do anything for me.

Saki went back to her high king days and is pimping again. I love saki's hair in this vid. Tne hat is a bit mank though.

I love momo, she's awesome, but in this vid, they didn't seem to do much with her.

Maasa looks great with her hair to the side. do it more often love.

Oh my darling Yuri, doesn't she look amazing. never seen her with curly hair before and it suits her quite well.

Miyabi's hat is friggen sekushy and with the new do, she looks amazing.

CHINAMI owns all in this pv, she looms friggen fantastic and is the only one who's whole outfit I like. She looks so sophisticated!

DANCE BIT:

at the start, before all of the crazy dancing we see them in the dark doing the 'hands swiping over the eyes' move.

"Put your hands up for detro...um tokyo" this is actually part of a dance move where the girls puch the air. Ads a nice touch of power to the pv.

Then comes the "boob bounce thing" move...which risako seems to love, and keeps doing until..

...she starts to get chest pains. seriously though she is quite good at it and it fits in well with the song.


After all the 'pumping' they get tired and give themselves a hug for all the hard work.

RANDOM:


After the dark hand in front of face dance move, a disco ball pops up with the girls faces on it, which then jump off it and into your face. 'do you think it was an accident that momo,miya and risako got the big spaces'

The other random bits were these things. every so often one of the girls would put up in front of some trippy backdrop and multiply while doing a weird dance moove. It REALLY doesn't fir the song.

BEST BIT:

Sexy yuri bit. If you dont like the pv/song at least watch it for this bit, its the best bit in the whole pv, that and chi's close ups.

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THE SONG:

simple put..its great, a great techno/dance style song. great beat. ok I really need to go now, my brain has stopped working and I cant type anymore. This post turned out a lot worse than I thought it would haha!!
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